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A simple solution of cockpit click in VR: Finger-ring touch mouse


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i did not see someone suggest this idea. i have a pull out mouse tray. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0834Y4SY3/ it is great for me. i think keeping my right hand on the stick is most important. i learned to use my left hand for using the mouse. i tried to set the joystick to the right because of the way the F-16 stick is. this gives me an open space between controllers to allow me moving my chair closer to the desk (for real work). the tray is centered between the controllers.

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I just thought I'd throw this in here, since I just got it working to a satisfactory level.  I originally tried this by strapping an index controller on to the back of my hand and while that worked fine it was uncomfortable.  However you can get vive trackers cheap, vive trackers do not innately work with DCS (or at least I couldn't figure out how to) but using a method shown in this reddit thread;

you can have the lighthouses recognise it as a controller.  Using the same JASON you edit in that method you also rotate the tracker so that it aligns with your finger by editing;

    "head": {
        "plus_x": [
            1,
            0,
            0
        ],
        "plus_z": [
            0,
            -1.5,
            -1

1.5 being okay for me.

 

Once you have done this you need to have another controller which actually has buttons that steam VR recognises (which you'll probably have), which you need to set to toggles to toggle the Left and Right grip buttons to be permanently on.  Then using a ring mouse (or in my case a ring powerpoint presenter) you bind one of the buttons to show/hide the relevant hand (and hide it when not in use) and bind two of the other buttons to left and right click, all in the UI section.  You could probably use an actual finger mouse for this but there were none on sale on amazon when I was initially looking that had any reviews.  Once you do this you have a perfectly functional pointer and a way to click and it works nice and is comfortable.  I have done a couple of startups with it like this.

 

Not as good as a pointCTRL I would wager, but no waiting time.

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